Reputation Quotes

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.

All it takes is a single act of aggression to permanently wound a nation's reputation.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.

I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology.

New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.

My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that.

I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill.

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera.

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.

Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

I never had that reputation of being not accessible.

I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.